Merge Records will reissue all four Archers of Loaf studio albums, starting with their acclaimed 1993 debut album, Icky Mettle, on Aug. 2.
Re-mastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by Robert Christgau, Icky Mettle will offer bonus material including the Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time EP, plus singles and B-sides from the Icky Mettle days.
It will be available digitally, on CD and and on limited-edition blue vinyl. Reissues of Vee Vee,All the Nation's Airports and White Trash Heroes will follow next year.
Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price formed Archers of Loaf in Chapel Hill, NC, in 1991. Icky Mettle was the first of four studio albums for the band that seemed to personify what SPIN magazine deemed "a tremendously optimistic time in underground music, that 15-minute period in the early 1990s when it looked like indie rock really might take over the world."
Damian is Editor-in-Chief of Guitar World magazine. In past lives, he was GW’s managing editor and online managing editor. He's written liner notes for major-label releases, including Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'The Complete Epic Recordings Collection' (Sony Legacy) and has interviewed everyone from Yngwie Malmsteen to Kevin Bacon (with a few memorable Eric Clapton chats thrown into the mix). Damian, a former member of Brooklyn's The Gas House Gorillas, was the sole guitarist in Mister Neutron, a trio that toured the U.S. and released three albums. He now plays in two NYC-area bands.
